Zalando Product Search Scraper

Track Zalando products, prices, images, and product URLs without manually browsing search or brand pages. This Actor is built for e-commerce teams, pricing analysts, fashion retailers, marketplace researchers, and AI data pipelines that need structured Zalando product data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or API-ready form.

Key Features

• Extract product cards from Zalando search, brand, or category URLs.
• Use a search query when no start URL is provided.
• Capture brand, product name, price, original price, currency, product URL, image URL, SKU, page URL, and scrape timestamp.
• Scroll-based browser crawling for JavaScript catalog pages.
• Fallback from simple blocked catalog query URLs like /catalog/?q=nike to slug pages like /nike/.
• Apify residential proxy support for live crawling, defaulting to Germany on Apify Cloud.
• Deduplicate products by canonical product URL.
• Respect maxItems with synchronous reservation before dataset writes.
• Fail explicitly on blocked, captcha, DNS-error, or empty product pages.
• Deterministic fixture mode for local parser verification, forced off on Apify Cloud.

How it Works

1. Enter a Zalando search query or provide Zalando search, brand, or category URLs.
2. Set maxItems, maxScrolls, and proxy settings.
3. Run the Actor and export products from the Apify dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or via API.

Input Example

{
  "query": "nike",
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.zalando.de/catalog/?q=nike" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxScrolls": 8,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"
  }
}

Output Sample

{
  "query": "nike",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.zalando.de/catalog/?q=nike",
  "position": 1,
  "brand": "Nike Sportswear",
  "name": "AIR FORCE 1 '07 - Sneaker low",
  "price": "119,95 €",
  "originalPrice": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "productUrl": "https://www.zalando.de/nike-sportswear-air-force-1-07-sneaker-low-white-ni112o0s9-a11.html",
  "imageUrl": "https://img01.ztat.net/article/spp-media-p1/abc123.jpg",
  "sku": "NI112O0S9-A11",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-02T03:04:05.000Z"
}

AI & LLM Integration

The dataset is clean, structured JSON that can be loaded into product intelligence workflows, LLM enrichment pipelines, and vector databases. Use extracted product names, brands, prices, URLs, and SKUs for competitor monitoring, assortment clustering, product summarization, price-change alerts, trend analysis, and retrieval-augmented generation over fashion catalog data.

Local Verification

For deterministic local parser checks, set useSampleHtml to true. This option is automatically forced off on Apify Cloud via APIFY_IS_AT_HOME, so production runs use live Zalando pages.

On Apify Cloud, empty proxy input defaults to Apify Proxy residential IPs in Germany. Local runs remain headless; cloud runs use headed Chrome in the Playwright Chrome image.